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Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky

Title
Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky / by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
Author
Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua
Publication
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
Minter, Daniel
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
  • This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history -- from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created -- and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today.
  • "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans"--Amazon.
Subject
  • Blue > Juvenile literature
  • Pigments > Juvenile literature
  • Color > Juvenile literature
  • Dyes and dyeing > Juvenile literature
  • African Americans > Juvenile literature
  • Blue
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Pictorial works.
  • Informational works.
  • Creative nonfiction.
  • Picture books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
Sc F 22-289
ISBN
  • 9781984894366
  • 1984894366
  • 9781984894373
  • 1984894374
OCLC
1295998530
Author
Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua, author.
Title
Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky / by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Minter, Daniel, illustrator.
Research Call Number
Sc F 22-289
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